- Monday, March 10, 2025
By: Shubham Ghosh
Russia on Tuesday (6) said it expects no improvement in relationship with the UK after the election of Liz Truss as its new prime minister.
Truss was on Monday (5) announced as the winner of the eight-week contest with Rishi Sunak and was set to succeed Boris Johnson as the third woman and the 56th overall prime minister of Britain.
“Judging by the announcements about our country Mrs. Truss made as foreign minister and as a candidate for the post it is quite safe to suggest that no improvement for the better may be expected,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Tuesday when asked how Moscow looked at Truss’s emerging as the winner in the Conservative Party vote and how the relations between the two nations develop in the future, Russia’s TASS news agency reported.
Peskov refused to give an answer when asked whether Russian president Vladimir Putin would congratulate Truss on becoming the prime minister.
“We will ask him, I cannot say now, I cannot answer the question,” he said.
Truss, 47, received the votes of 81,326 rank-and-file Conservatives while Rishi Sunak, a former finance minister, 42 got 60,399 votes.
